This prompt gives alot of room for creativity:  How might it have turned out differently?  There are are numerous ways copyright could have formed but I feel as if it was inevitable.  People like to feel unique.  When someone discovers something new, interesting, and unorthodox we prefer to keep the discovery to ourselves.  Without this type of protection, authors wouldn’t be able to establish an individual identity because anyone could copy their unique style.  For my paper I was thinking about going towards copyright in the music industry and how it would be effected by stricter or more lenient laws.  More lenient laws would probably aid rising musicians to become mainstream, yet it would cause famous musicians to lose credibility by having numerous artists creating similar material.  Either way a change in the current copyright laws would have had drastic effects